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Originally Posted by johnny d
camron you are the one missing the point. the RA only matters for establishing initial position. if the situation with screen out top you describe occurs, it doesnt matter what you want to call the defender (primary, secondary, tertiary) who picks the offensive player up off the screen if that defender establishes legal guarding position outside the RA, then they are allowed to maintain that legal guarding position all the way into the RA. the key point and the only thing that matters is where this defender establishes guarding postion, inside or outside of the RA after that the same rules for maintaining legal position are in effect.
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Why then is it being called a block when simple because the defender has a heel on the line even if it wasn't there to being with.
Maybe it should be as you suggest, but that is not how it is being called.